Śivavarmakathana, 1869; शिववर्मकथन,१८६९

Date:

1869

Description:

Manuscript is used primarily for private recitation and ritual directed towards the Hindu deity Śiva and includes numerous invocations of Sanskrit mantras or syllables and phrases of power. Reciting the text is meant to produce a protective barrier over the devotee that will protect him or her from harm, thus functioning as a kind of prayer amulet or talisman. Manuscript lacks beginning.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Amulets; Śiva (Hindu deity); Siva (Hindu deity); Amulets (Hinduism); Amulets -- India; Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Hindu mantras

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

poems; prayers (compositions); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (15 leaves) : paper; 9 x 17 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v); alternate title Śivakavaca supplied by cataloger.; Written in 5-6 lines per leaf.; 15 leaves foliated 2-16, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe brahmottarakhaṃḍe śivavarmakayanaṃ nāmadvādśodhyāyaḥ // 12 // śrī sāṃbasadāśivārpaṇam astu // (f. 16r-16v).; Dated saṃvat 1926 (1869) (f. 16v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 392

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts